Type-declaration character required

The necessity of using type-declaration characters depends on the form of the identifier's declaration. This error has the following cause and solution:

• A variable that was originally implicitly declared with a type-declaration characters was referenced without a type-declaration character. For example:

  MyStr$ = "Implicit declaration" MyStr = "Trying to refer to MyStr$, but error results" _ & "from calling it MyStr."

  Either make the declaration explicit, or add the type-declaration character to later references.

  Note
  If an explicit variable declaration contains a type-declaration character, inclusion of the character is optional in later references. For example:

  Dim MyStr$ MyStr = "Because it was explicitly declared, the $ is optional."

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